Kids' drawings of human biology - Boing Boing
As a graduate student in my last semester of a Master of Arts in Teaching/Art Education, I'm particularly interested in the intersection of different domains with art-- especially art and science. In 2003, Steve Harvey, professor of biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, used the kids' drawings to illustrate a series of lectures on human biology for non-biologists. For millennia, humans have made art: it's a subject that can stand on its own two feet, and it's that part of our education that teaches us many important lessons: how to think creatively, how to examine the grey areas, how to engage and persist... " If we take the best science fiction authors (who crafted fine art from inspiration of the sciences) as an example, we just don't see that kind of kowtowing to science. combining science, language arts, social studies, fine arts, and math. It's a bit weird to think that the kids who drew these pictures have probably graduated from high school now, or are about to. I wonder what impact they'd say that year of 2nd grade had on them. It sounds like a really cool way to learn, and even involved bringing several local doctors into the classroom to teach kids about what surgeons, and other specialties, do. Second-grade Maggie is retroactively jealous. Equally as importantly, art teaches us how to apply the lessons we learn in the sciences humanely. I wonder whether any of them are planning on biology as a career. Back in 2001, a 2nd grade class in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, did a year-long integrated education project on the human body &mdash. The problem I see with many approaches to this question is that they treat the arts as a superficial contributor to the equation, when in fact, they should be regarded as equals. Reading Asimov or Bradbury or Heinlein, you know exactly how each author felt about the social issues confronting all of us, through an authentic story that was inspired by science, not serving as a mere illustration. We see their art standing on equal footing. It's a great mashup of science and creativity, producing everything from the fairly true-to-life skeleton pictured above, to fun (and funny) cartoons of the human brain. So, instead of asking deeper questions of the students, we get "we're doing a lesson on the solar system, so let's draw planets. featuring 2nd-graders' interpretations of a variety of different organs and biological systems&mdash. Part of what I like about this gallery is the Internet Time Machine effect&mdash. This gallery of drawings &mdash....
Yust peeled a Gauva,was full of worms eeeewh!Biology lessons for da kids!
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